I use Photoshop CC 2015. When I double click on my NEF files (Nikon RAW files) they open in the Camera Raw part of Photoshop. My photo does not look flat and lifeless. It looks similar to the equivalent JPG photo. Am I doing something wrong and are my photos lacking any of the PP that should be available to RAW files? Am I really processing the RAW file?

Someone was hurt! YOU. You should have told them that you were hurt. You were not hurt physically, but you were both financially and mentally.

I can't imagine how difficult it would be to hold a selfie stick with my Nikon D4s attached.

Just because one works for a company doesn't mean you take no risk. Have you ever heard of layoffs? Our industry has experienced many companies with many layoffs. I myself was laid off. Hundreds of companies in the software industry have gone under.

Exactly right. BUT, the author has his book published by a publishing house, a musician has his CD cut by a recording company, and an actor has his movie filmed by a motion picture studio. Their work is distributed by another company.

Yes, an author can publish a book by himself and collect the profits. But that would be akin to me working for myself and writing the software and trying to sell it on my own. The reason I work for a company and an author goes to a publishing house, a musician to a recording company, and an actor to the motion picture studio is to get our work out to the public in a mass way because that is what they are professionally able to do. The authors, musicians, actors, etc. who are collecting royalties are not distributing their work on their own.

Why doesn't the publishing house say to the author, "We will pay you X amount for your novel, and then we will own your novel and collect the profits from the sales of the book"? Diddo for the musician, actor, etc.

This post is not to argue the whether subscription or one time purchase is the better choice. As for me, I find the Adobe subscription a reasonably priced offer. However, I do not denigrate those who don't, they have their valid reasons. My purpose is to point out some misconceptions.

When you purchase software, you do own the right to use the software under the terms of the software license. It is similar to a book or a record or a music score. When you buy a book, you own that book, but the book comes with a copyright (same with the record and the music score). The copyright has restrictions. You can't copy several pages out of the book and use it in your own novel, i.e. you can't plagiarize. When you purchase software, you own the CD it came on or the file you downloaded.

The license isn't necessarily for a limited number of computers. It can be for any number of computers or not have any restrictions on the number. Not all software purchases require payments for upgrades. Some software comes with free upgrades, or maybe a limited number of free upgrades. Basically, when you get Microsoft Windows, you get free upgrades for the your version until they stop supporting it. Each version of Windows is in essence a different software program.

The comparison of the Adobe subscription to a magazine or a newspaper is a false simile. The M-W dictionary defines 'subscription' as "an arrangement for providing, receiving, or making use of something of a continuing or periodic nature on a prepayment plan". The Adobe subscription refers to the 'making use of something of a continuing nature' part of the definition. Magazine and newspaper subscriptions refer to the 'receiving something of a periodic nature'. So both are subscriptions. With Adobe, you are getting updates and upgrades that complement and add to an existing product. However, with magazines and newspapers, you are getting a new product with each issue. You are not getting a magazine with last month's articles repeated with new articles added on. Even if a new version of the Adobe product comes out, the basic purpose and function of the software is the same, even if the interface is new.

The intellectual property paradigm is similar between software and books, music, movies, etc. As a software engineer, there is one particular thing in the paradigm not shared with the software industry. For any of the software that I produce and then is marketed by my company, I do not get any royalties for each copy of the software program sold or for each time the software is used.

As someone who works several days a year working at EAFB, calm mornings and windy drives back to Palmdale in the afternoon are the norm in the high desert.

Yep, that same camera was my first "real" camera. I was seventeen and bought it in Tokyo when I was in Japan for the Boy Scout World Jamboree in August 1971. Before that, I had a Kodak Hawkeye (used 127 film) and a cheap Polaroid made of plastic (don't remember model info). I still have my Nikon F.

Oh, the wonderful memories.

How can you say lions prefer Canon? They only experienced a Canon and spit it out. They never had a chance to experience a Nikon because they are too valuable to be sloppy with and lose to a bunch of lions.

Note I said additional. Nigerian is a given.

The letter states that he got on the space station in 1989 and was abandoned in 1990. It is now 2018. That is a difference of 29 years since he got on the station, not 14 years. Wow, his bank account must be around $30 million now.

The big error of the number of years is a big additional clue to tip you off that this is a scam.

I read through the SnapShot thread. The first posts of Swede and nikon123 were not mean, derogatory, or snarky. They stated an opinion of why they did not care for the photos. The Swede wanted the originals so he could compare and further comment on what his suggestions would be to make the photos better in his opinion. It was SnapShot who elevated the rhetoric to an unacceptable level in his replies, rather than responding to the reasons Swede and nikon123 did not understand his work. Was the discourse by SnapShot bad enough to cause someone to leave the UHH? No. However, if SnapShot did not want to see criticism of his work, he should not have started the thread with "Comments Welcome". Obviously, he wanted nice comments only. The original criticisms were not disrespectful. It was his replies that caused the conversation to become deplorable.

I do not post pictures in the galleries. Mainly because I don't have the time to pick out photos I think are worthy and post them, but also, I do not need someone to boost my ego by telling me the photo is great. All that matters to me is if I like the photo. I don't care if you do not like it. Art is truly art in the eye of the beholder, even though the "art people" might tell you differently. I may not like a totally black 6' x 4' canvas hanging in it's own gallery room at the University of Iowa art gallery. But if someone who enjoys it and will pay thousands of dollars for it, what do I care? It is pleasurable to that person and the enjoyment of the art is the truly important objective.

To those people saying "ByeBye" to nikon123, you are putting yourselves in the same vain as SnapShot. It is unnecessary comment. (This is not directed to those who said they are sorry to see nikon123 leave or suggested he/she consider staying. It's for the sarcastic ones.)

If you check the Merrriam-Webster dictionary, both pronunciations are correct for both 'coupon' and 'often'. However, pronunciation for 'often' with the 't' is designated as non-standard.

I have noticed the infinity focus going beyond the mark. I'm happy to see the reason for it. I have a hard time manually focusing. I seem to not be able to judge the sharp focus point when viewing through the view finder, so I rely on auto focus. However, sometimes my auto focus is not accurate or the auto focus can't determine the right focus point because of the low light or poor contrast. Then I am forced to do manual focus.

I went to Africa in April-May and flew South African airline from DC. Business class was only $6,000 round trip.

So true. If I had a dollar for every time I wanted to say "Get the [expletive] out of my picture," to mindless people who have to make 20 different poses and then look at the photos before moving out of the scene, I would be a wealthy man.